Lord Byron's Grave, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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The Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, is the final resting place of Lord Byron, a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.
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Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/02/2009
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George Gordon Byron, later Noel, 6th Baron Byron FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism.
Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest European poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond.
Byron's fame rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured extravagant living, numerous love affairs, debts, separation, and marital exploits. He was famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know".Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organization, the Carbonari, in its struggle against Austria. He later traveled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero.He died from a fever in Messolonghi in Greece.
His remains were sent to England for burial in Westminster Abbey, but the Abbey refused for reason of "questionable morality". Huge crowds viewed his body as he lay in state for two days in London. He is buried at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottingham.
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